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Resolution for XWindows

Hey trickster. Could you help me with a really quick question. I don&#039;t have RH installed yet. Every time i install it. Everything is small. I don&#039;t want it big and i don&#039;t want so small. After the installation. What setting should i set?? For example. I think there is 640 X 840 or something like that. And what bit 8, 16 or 24?? 24 won&#039;t work on my system for some reason. So we have to go with 8 or 16 bit. If you get what i&#039;m saying. Please reply back. Thanks trickster.

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Re:Resolution for XWindows

I just reinstalled Redhat 9 and for some reason in RH 8 800*600 works fine but in RH 9 it&#039;s too big. I really don&#039;t want to keep on reinstalling it to find a right resolution for me. Is there a way that i can do this without reinstalling RH 9?? I tried to install the KDE option in packages to run kppp and it was too big that i could not see the update button to install the KDE. Please reply back. Thanks trickster and everyone.

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I just reinstalled Redhat 9 and for some reason in RH 8 800*600 works fine but in RH 9 it&#039;s too big. I really don&#039;t want to keep on reinstalling it to find a right resolution for me. Is there a way that i can do this without reinstalling RH 9?? I tried to install the KDE option in packages to run kppp and it was too big that i could not see the update button to install the KDE. Please reply back. Thanks trickster and everyone.
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Try this... Ctrl+Alt+Backspace....this should drop you out of your graphical interface. Type at the command prompt: xf86config. This will start the X configuration utility. Once you go through to the section about screen resolutions, it should ask you if you want to use a desktop that is larger than your screen size. Press the letter n for no, then Enter. That will make you screen size 800x600 instead of whatever size the desktop is right now.

I think that the whole config utility is rather easy to use and generally self-explanitory. But, should you get stuck feel free to ask additional questions.